Middle School
For junior youth, those in grades 6, 7 and 8, we work to ensure they are well prepared to enter high schools, focusing on strengthening the acquisition of language – vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing, and eloquent speech; mathematics – number sense, fractions, and algebra; and scientific ability.
Those who join the program are connected to an older youth who serves as a tutor and mentor of a small group of junior youth. The tutor helps with homework and assignments and studies materials with the junior youth designed to strengthen intellectual capacity and lead to stronger academic achievement. Study is enhanced by small research and service initiatives that help participants learn about their community, analyze social conditions and forces, and undertake service initiatives aimed at contributing to community wellbeing.
Tutorial Learning
Wordswell works to enhance the intellectual abilities of young people as they enter middle school and continue through their high school studies. Our efforts complement the Ontario school curriculum, with a focus on language, mathematics, and science. We aim to strengthen academic commitment and performance while building capabilities to contribute to the wellbeing of the community.
Our tutorial efforts are decentralized, offering support in several neighborhoods in Toronto and London, Ontario.
High School
The focus for youth in secondary education is to ensure they are well prepared, academically, socially, and financially, to enter a program of study at university, college, or trade school.
With the help of a tutor, small groups of youth study educational content that strengthens intellectual capacity, focusing on language, mathematics, science, and technology. They are also supported with homework and assignments. An aim is to broaden and strengthen the conceptual foundation of what is being learned in school and to help young people reflect on themes such as money and finance, work and vocation, and media and technology. A focus is to help youth in these formative years learn to analyze the social forces to which they are exposed, to strengthen their spirit of inquiry and direct it to learn about their communities and identify ways they can, together as young people, contribute to improving them..